Int'l Men's Day At College Cancelled: Gender Equality -- For Men, That Is -- Is "Misogynistic"
Glen Poole writes in the Telegraph/UK that The University of York has withdrawn plans to celebrate International Men's Day on November 19, which would have highlighted issues like like male suicide.
Turns out academics and students complained, saying "gender equality is for everyone" is "misogynistic."
Right. Just ignoring men killing themselves, that's the humanitarian thing to do under feminism.
In confirming that he had cancelled plans for an International Men's Day celebration, the university's Registrar and Secretary, Dr David Duncan said: "the intention was to draw attention to some of the issues men tell us they encounter and to follow this up by highlighting in particular the availability of mental health and welfare support which we know men are sometimes reluctant to access".And so once again we see the double bind that suicidal men and those who advocate their need for support are constantly placed in. On the one hand we are told that the answer to the public health emergency of male suicide is to get men talking about their issues. On the other hand we are told that we can't talk about men's issues because women's issues are more important.
The tragedy of this situation is that by campaigning against men's issues, women's rights advocates at the University of York have made it harder for suicidal men to reach out and get the help they need.
...The message that the University of York has sent out to men and boys, by capitulating to the anti-male sentiments of lecturers, student reps and alumni, is that it is socially unacceptable to talk about men's issues.
And when you send out a message that is socially unacceptable to talk about men's issues, you re-enforce unhelpful cultural messages about masculinity like "boys don't cry" and "real men" don't talk about their issues.
In 2015 we are still conditioned to believe that care and compassion is for women and girls; those who campaign against International Men's Day re-enforce these outdated and sexist attitudes by demonstrating a complete lack of compassion for the issues faced by men and boys.
More: Tragic.
Any married guy can tell you this is about controlling the narrative. That's why they like to mow the lawn on weekends - it's quiet.
Canvasback at November 18, 2015 10:30 PM
The only problem feminists have with male suicide is there isn't enough of it.
dee nile at November 19, 2015 4:08 AM
A shame that the University of York took the decidedly unmanly approach and capitulated to the demands of feminists.
Patrick at November 19, 2015 5:33 AM
Wait. There is a Men's Day? Isn't every day Men's day?
/snark
charles at November 19, 2015 5:47 AM
Classic third wave feminism.
Ben at November 19, 2015 6:04 AM
Some men's issues are starting to sneak through the feminist blockade of information. Veteran rights are starting to be socially acceptable to be discussed, so when an advertisement talked about how 1/3 of homeless were vets I got confused questions since the pushed narrative is only women with children are homeless. Also with the blm protests some are gathering stats in police violence but any who look at the numbers will see its men who are the dead.
Joe j at November 19, 2015 7:04 AM
Charles is right; every day is Men's Day, especially if I have a Cabelas coupon.
"International Men's Day," as a knee-jerk response to the perception that the downtrodden are getting uppity and we'd better "remember" the folks who have been running things for thousands of years, as if we could forget, is as stupid an idea as "Blue Lives Matter," which reminds us that heavily-armed and armored cops take their lives in their hands every time they exit their precinct houses in their armored cars to go harass more harmless citizens. IOW, it's horsecrap.
Grey Ghost at November 19, 2015 7:27 AM
Grey Ghost,
Looks like hazard duty to me.
https://www.google.com/search?q=policeman+shot+during+traffic+stop&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Bob in Texas at November 19, 2015 8:46 AM
I already care about you as much as you care about me.
MarkD at November 19, 2015 12:58 PM
"International Men's Day," as a knee-jerk response to the perception that the downtrodden are getting uppity and we'd better "remember" the folks who have been running things for thousands of years,"
This would ignorant if it weren't suspiciously like the intention behind the suffrage movement - to get a lot of posh parasite women out whining and rioting to deflect attention from the agitation and labor actions of working men at the time, who most certainly were not "running" and in fact those posh parasite women already had a lot more political power than those men did. So it's not ignorant, it's very calculated.
Jim at November 19, 2015 2:18 PM
Except that working-class WOMEN weren't "running" things either - and well-off suffragists knew perfectly well that votes for women would mean votes for everyone eventually, but apparently, they were hardly opposed to that. Whereas plenty of other rich women were OPPOSED to women's right to vote, in part because they just didn't care about the lack of life options for poor women.
English poet, novelist and children's writer Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) once said of woman's rights: "I don't approve of them at all. We cannot have rights and privileges, and I prefer privileges."
I wonder if she ever read Sojourner Truth's famous 1851 speech. (For those who don't remember, Truth pointed out that, even as an ex-slave, she'd never had ANY feminine privileges.) Not to mention that, as Miss Manners once pointed out, poor women of all kinds have always worked for pay - including married women.
Ingelow also said, on the need for lower classes:
"Why, if the swarms in the weaving and the spinning world are to be thinned, who will bring a revenue to the cotton-lord? If the crowded alley is to be deserted, who will make our shirts and our gowns? and if at the parish school we bring up all the children to fly like nestlings as soon as they are fledged, where are our housemaids and nursemaids and cookmaids to come from?. . . . No; truly God made my servant what he is; God placed me over him: let him work — it is his duty; let me play — it is my birthright; and let none of us presume to wish that God had placed us otherwise! That is what people say — at least a great many of them."
lenona at November 20, 2015 8:56 AM
"[...] We cannot have rights and privileges, [...]"
I wish this were true.
dee nile at November 20, 2015 4:25 PM
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